Director/PDMR Shareholding

Matchtech Group PLC
28 January 2008


MATCHTECH GROUP ('the Company')

28 January 2008

The Matchtech Group plc Share Incentive Plan ('SIP')

The Company announces the purchase, on 28 January 2008, of 1,654 ordinary shares
of 1p each in the Company ('Shares') to Matchtech Engineering Limited ('the
Trustee'), at a price of £3.60 pence per Share, for the purpose of satisfying
the purchase of Shares by eligible employees (including executive directors)
under the SIP for the current month. The SIP has been approved by the Inland
Revenue as a share incentive plan under Schedule 8 to the Finance Act 2000.

The number of Dividend Shares purchased on this date on behalf of the executive
directors were as follows:

Director       SIP Dividend        Total SIP holding following purchase *
                     shares
                  purchased
                                 Dividend     Purchased    Matching element
                                   Shares        Shares              Shares

Paul Raine               21            28           770                 770
Tony Dyer                21            28           770                 770
Adrian Gunn              21            28           770                 770

* excludes interests in Shares outside held outside SIP

Following this transaction the Trustee will hold 105,038 Shares, all of which
are held on behalf of eligible employees pursuant to the terms of the SIP.

The beneficial ownership of Shares awarded under the matching element of the SIP
will pass to Paul Raine, Tony Dyer and Adrian Gunn in three years time subject
to continued employment and the retention of the underlying Shares purchased on
their behalf.


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